MODX :: Tweet This Snippet

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DaveChild Reply #1, 2 years, 9 months ago

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This snippet returns a link to twitter for the user to tweet the a URL (current page by default) with its title. URL is TinyURLed automatically (and tinyurls are cached indefinitely in assets/cache/tweetthis.txt).

Usage
Simply paste code (in attached file) into a new snippet called "TweetThis". Call it like so:

Parameters (all parameters are optional).

&name - can be your Twitter ID if you prefix with "@".
&text - will default to "Tweet This!".
&id - will default to the current document id.

Updates
Update 0.2 - more efficient storage of tinyurls (using id rather than url as key).
Update 0.3 - added id as optional parameter.
Update 0.4 - added check to ensure id is numeric. If not, snippet writes error to event log and uses default document id instead.

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ronaldlokers Reply #2, 2 years, 9 months ago

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Nice, maybe will build it into my site, but shouldn't the @text be &text

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DaveChild Reply #3, 2 years, 9 months ago

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It should indeed - thanks for spotting that. I've changed it now.

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dev_cw Reply #4, 2 years, 9 months ago

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Great snippet. Very cool.

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charliez Reply #5, 2 years, 9 months ago

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Thanks, very nice snippet for Twitter availability...!!

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Soshite Reply #6, 2 years, 9 months ago

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Would it be possible to allow for giving a specific ID?

For instance, this doesn't work on content gathered by Ditto. If I could specify the ID, I could get it to work on my front page.

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DaveChild Reply #7, 2 years, 9 months ago

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Quote from: Soe at Apr 17, 2009, 07:41 PM

Would it be possible to allow for giving a specific ID?

Done. Updated to 0.3 and you can now pass in an ID. I actually had it set to do that originally and changed it to keep it simple, but it makes sense to have the ability to pass in an id as well.

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Adam Wintle Reply #8, 2 years, 9 months ago

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Yeah this rocks! I'd love to see more things like this for MODx!

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sharkbait Reply #9, 2 years, 9 months ago

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thank you for sharing!

sorry to ask, i'm not sure if i understand the use of this snippet...it produces a tinyurled link & title, so that the user can copy and paste the text in order to tweet it?

jan

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ronaldlokers Reply #10, 2 years, 9 months ago

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Quote from: sharkbait at Apr 18, 2009, 06:40 AM

thank you for sharing!

sorry to ask, i'm not sure if i understand the use of this snippet...it produces a tinyurled link & title, so that the user can copy and paste the text in order to tweet it?

jan

You almost get it

You will get a link to twitter with the tinyurled link & title so you only have to log in into twitter to tweet the message